Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.